Author: Rainbow Riots

The video to our new single ‘Set Me Free’ is out today! The song is composed by Rainbow Riots founding director, Swedish artist and activist Petter Wallenberg, and features Ugandan artists Kowa Tigs & D Black. The video was directed by Wallenberg and filmed with...

We are proud to announce that our founding director Petter Wallenberg is one of the three official nominees for this year’s Keep up the good work award at Sweden’s biggest LGBT awards – Qx Galan 2018!
The motivation reads: “He is an icon in the queer...

Out now: The new single ”Set Me Free” from our album Rainbow Riots! In Uganda it’s illegal to be LGBT and life for queer people can be like a prison. With this song we are giving voice to a community in desperate need to be...

During Stockholm Pride we invited our collaborators from some of the world’s most hostile places to LGBTQ people, like Uganda, Jamaica and Malawi, for the world premiere of our Rainbow Riots album LIVE!
This was the first time Ugandan LGBTQ artists performed internationally – ever!
To watch...

We are proud to announce that our founding director Petter Wallenberg is amongst the world’s leading human rights advocates who will be going to Hong Kong as one of the speakers at the Human Dignity Festival, which Gay Star News called a ‘life changing LGBT...

”The most invaluable and enduring feature of the album is its ability to give courage to others to stand up, write down and sing out their truths”
South African newspaper Mail & Guardian gave the Rainbow Riots album a glowing review which really understood the ideas...